‘Irreconcilable Differences’: Obama at Notre Dame

posted at 6:06 pm on May 17, 2009 by
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Darnit… “Fair minded words” wasn’t on my drinking game list. Neither was “One human family.” I can’t believe I didn’t include that! But Obama did hit on “common ground,” “climate change” and many more on the list.

Here’s the quote of the day as it concerns anti-abortion and pro-abortion camps: “The fact is that at some level, the views of the two camps are irreconcilable.”

Do we ever hear Obama say views are “irreconcilable”? I’ve never heard him say this about Al Qaeda or Kim Jong Il. I’ll at least give Obama credit for realizing that a compromise on abortion would be tough, because it would be more than a little difficult to half-kill a fetus.

Obama also called for everyone to be “open minded” about the abortion issue. Geez, if you said “let’s be open-minded about waterboarding” you’d get kicked in the teeth by pacifists.

Here’s the whole speech. TOTUS wants to play some hoops. The protesters pop up briefly at about the 3:15 mark:

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he saw the polls. He knows his rhetoric about his kids being punished with a baby won’t work anymore.

deidre on May 17, 2009 at 9:36 PM

Smooth talk from a liar. If the media was not willing to pass on his rhetoric without context or analysis, Obama would lose 15% of his popularity in the polls instantly.

Imagine if in 2003 after liberating Iraq, President Bush gave a commencement speech at Cal-Berkley (this IS a hypothetical) and spoke of common ground with the anti-war movement. “Now we can agree to disagree on rendition, enhanced interrogation techniques (water boarding), and wiretapping, but there is common ground in that we both want to reduce the number of terror attacks.”

Angry Dumbo on May 18, 2009 at 9:42 AM